Re: TI-H: Pager thingy from Yahoo, pretty cool!
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Re: TI-H: Pager thingy from Yahoo, pretty cool!
This will be possible through the modem cart. Don't make a special server,
lets just make the TI drivers compatible with POP3 and NNTP...
>Ok...Grant's been pushing his 8-bit I/O thingamajigger on this EII. Now, if
>anyone else has ever looked at the SLIP protocol definion, you'll discover
>that's it's ramarkably simple. You've got two important bytes ESC and END.
>Basically, you encapsupate IP into that, send it with an ESC END at each
>and, and replace every ESC with ESC ESC and yer done. I think it should be
>fairly easy to build a (very simple) program for the TI that connects to the
>internet using SLIP. I'd be glad to write up a little server proggie and
>host it on any one of my boxes sitting out there on T1s. ICQ/AIM for teh TI?
>Right around the corner - i say. Especially since it would always be talking
>to a specific IP on a specific port. It could also use UDP to make things
>simpler (for all those of you not familliar with this, just know that UDP is
>simpler to use than TCP). If anyone feels like helping me code the TI end,
>i'll gladly write a server (I can do this in about an hour).
>
>-- Jon Olson
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Kalos <raptorone@geocities.com>
>To: 'ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org' <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date: Tuesday, March 10, 1998 12:31 AM
>Subject: RE: TI-H: Pager thingy from Yahoo, pretty cool!
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>As long as we're spamming, look at the last line on my sig. That's the AOL
>IM tool. It's for internet users, and allows you to contact AOL users as
>well. It's also free, and it works rather well, I have most of my friends
>suckered into it, because it works decently, and I can still keep tabs on my
>less computer-literate friends ("What's an ISP???")
>Now, if we could establish a client for that on the TI's, that would rock.
>Just another addon to the Calc Internet project.
>Christopher Kalos
>raptorone@geocities.com
>VirtuTech Developer's Group
>AOL IM: Raptor1CK
>
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>From: Robert Brack[SMTP:reb@netride.com]
>Sent: Monday, March 09, 1998 10:49 PM
>To: TI-86 Hardware List
>Subject: TI-H: Pager thingy from Yahoo, pretty cool!
>
>
>Have you seen the Yahoo! Pager? It's like AOL's IMs, but over the whole
>internet!
>
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